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Home Assistant Santa Tracker: Follow Santa Claus live

Imagine your children being able to see where Santa Claus is on Christmas Eve. That's exactly what Home Assistant Santa Tracker makes possible. With this smart integration, your dashboard becomes an interactive Christmas highlight. 🏠 What is Home Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 6 months ago 22. December 2025
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The best home assistant widgets for iOS & Android

With widgets, you can control your smart home faster, more conveniently and more clearly - directly from the home or lock screen. Whether iOS or Android: Home Assistant offers you numerous options for having your most important devices and automations at your fingertips. Smart Home lives Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 4 days ago 5. April 2026
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Home Assistant smartphone dashboard made easy with Linus

Want to use your Home Assistant dashboard on your smartphone without spending hours configuring it? Then Linus Dashboard is just right for you! This modern dashboard automatically creates a clear interface for all rooms and devices in your smart home. Why dashboards? Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 6 months ago 13. December 2025
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Whai: Your smart AI assistant for the command line

Imagine this: You're working in the terminal, come across an error or are looking for a specific shell command - and instead of having to google it, you simply ask your shell. This is exactly what Whai makes possible. It's a lightweight, shell-integrated AI tool that integrates seamlessly with Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 7 months ago 29. November 2025
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Set up Thread & Matter in Home Assistant with Docker

Attention smart home fans! If you want to network your devices in a future-proof way, there's no way around Thread and Matter. In this article, I'll show you step by step how to set up both directly in Home Assistant in Docker. In the end, you control Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 8 months ago 14. January 2026
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Vaultwarden: secure password management made easy

🚀 Why Vaultwarden is the perfect solution for self-hosting? I can tell you that. Are you looking for a secure and resource-saving password management solution? Then Vaultwarden is just right for you. Vaultwarden is an unofficial, lean server implementation of Bitwarden - ideal for Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 4 months ago 13. January 2026
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Smart freezer monitoring: TEMP-1 with Home Assistant

If the freezer breaks down unnoticed, food worth several hundred euros can be lost. Smart temperature monitoring is therefore a real game changer - and this is where the Apollo Temp 1 Sensor comes into play. In combination with Home Assistant Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 8 months ago 29. November 2025
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Vodafone in Home Assistant: smart monitoring of contract data

If you want to keep an eye on your Vodafone Germany mobile phone contract and make your smart home smarter with Home Assistant at the same time, then you've come to the right place. In this article, I'll show you how the MeinVodafone integration works and what you Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 8 months ago 9. November 2025
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Vehicle Status Card for Home Assistant - your car dashboard!

Do you use Home Assistant and want to integrate your car or vehicle directly into the dashboard? Then the Vehicle Status Card is just the right tool for you. It not only allows you to display the charge level, range and status, but also buttons, Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 9 months ago 28. September 2025
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Home Assistant - solve problems before they arise

Who hasn't experienced this? As soon as something in the smart home doesn't work as usual, you're called in as the „family admin“. The list of such small but annoying problems is long - and you are usually the first point of contact. In the long run, this can Read more

By Sascha Brockel, 5 months ago 29. November 2025

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